Noorazeela Zainol Abidin
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Noorazeela, Zainol Abidin
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Abidin, Noorazeela Zainol
Zainol Abidin, Noorazeela
Abidin, N. Z.
Abidin, N. Zainol
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Conceptualization of co-worker support: A qualitative study among human resource practitioners

2023-04-24 , Khairun Nisa Khairuddin , Ummi Naiemah Saraih , Mohd Fitri M. , Noorazeela Zainol Abidin

Along with rapid industrial and societal transformations, Human Resource (HR) profession is one of the professions that play a pivotal role in the organizations to keep abreast with the changes. Transformations will be accompanied by the changes in values, thus requiring HR practitioners to make constant revisions in the employment law and practices. In this challenging environment, employees are expected to assume greater responsibilities in or to adapt to the changing environment successfully. Such a challenging environment can be strenuous to employees. In order to cope in such an environment, employees often seek support from their social relationships at work. Therefore, this study attempts to explore the concept of co-worker support among HR practitioners. Based on the findings, six themes of co-worker support were identified. A clearer conceptualization of co-worker support established contributed to the body of knowledge. Practically, the conceptualization of co-worker support can be used to assess support-related issues pertaining to social relationships at work, which can help organizations undertake appropriate actions to strengthen employee relations and create a harmonious working environment.

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The digitalization 4.0 of intangible heritage model: Preparing tourism businesses for the augmented virtual reality future

2023-06-12 , Rashid I.M.A. , Hussin H. , Roni M. , Shafiai S. , Borhanordin A.H. , Wan Husain W.A.F. , Noorazeela Zainol Abidin , Mohammad Harith Amlus , Ibrahim S.

The current situation is not favorable for the stellar opening of tourism destinations. Travel and tourism losses are limited to the few people and tourists to the local community; many dependents affect the current crises. That will lead many parts of the world to find alternative options for the tourism industry's survival. Technological development is significantly inspiring many fields and commercial sectors within the COVID-19 outbreak. Research on the use of digital technologies in tourism is now established as an academic field, and the number and quality of publications are increasing rapidly. This trend is also noticeable in the global healthcare concerns after the COVID-19 pandemic, where the technology market is expected to expand. In the tourism industry, digital tourism documentation contributes to the development of destinations. The virtual environment encourages consumers to visit the destination. In addition, the second category of literature involves research related to virtual reality. The virtual environment has technically changed the configuration of the entire industry, and the world is very interesting. The virtual environment purely dominates the world of games, movies, and multimedia-related industries. In recent years, consumer perception behavior has been primarily affected by virtual reality. However, the tourism industry also pointed out in the literature that the development of tourism behavior through digital tourism is mainly cultural and heritage tourism. The results of the survey mainly deal with the motivating factors for the use of digital technology in the environment related to the development of tourism. Furthermore, research related to virtual reality emphasizes experimental research and few articles involve exploratory research.

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Gas consumption as a key for low carbon state and its impact on economic growth in Malaysia: ARDL approach

2023 , Temitayo B. Majekodunmi , Mohd Shahidan Shaari , Nor Fadzilah Zainal , Nor Hidayah Harun , Abdul Rahim Ridzuan , Noorazeela Zainol Abidin , Nur Hayati Abd Rahman

Natural gas consumption contributes the least to CO2 emissions than other non-renewable energy such as oil and coal. Thus, it is important to replace oil in generating economic activities and leading the country towards low carbon state. Despite the environmentally friendly energy, most previous studies did not study gas consumption. Therefore, this study investigates the effects of gas consumption and other selected macroeconomic determinants such as labour, capital, foreign direct investment, trade openness, and financial development on Malaysia's economic growth from 1980 to 2019. The Augmented Distributed Lag (ARDL) approach is employed, and the results show that gas consumption plays a vital role in boosting economic growth in the short and long run. Based on these findings, all economic sectors should consume more natural gas instead of oil, including industries and transportation. This move can conserve the environment and support clean energy for sustainable development. The remaining variables also increased economic growth except for financial development. Based on these outcomes, the country's policymakers can construct a suitable policy that can improve all the potential macroeconomic determinants besides the use of natural gas consumption in accelerating growth in Malaysia.

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Normality test on agriculture growth and food security to improve poverty in high income country

2023 , Syahiru Shafiai , Noorazeela Zainol Abidin , Intan Maizura Abd Rashid , Syahril Iman Faisal , Miguel Angel Esquivias , Elsayed Elsiefy , Akhmad Jayadi , Mastura Roni

This study contributes to the literature in food security and economic growth. The relationship between food securities has been reviewed by variety of the previous studies; it becomes important to explore the problem issues that arise regarding on previous studies. This research is to explore the problems and issues in high income country. Though in the world's wealthiest countries, the poor people frequently survive in substandard housing and struggle to afford basic goods and services such as heating, transportation, and nutritious food for themselves and their families. Understanding of the relationship between multiple measuring poverty and variety of food security factors is therefore critical for program planning and subsequent analysis. People live in poverty in every country on the planet. Therefore, this study aims to examine the relationship between food security and economic growth in two selected high-income countries which is Singapore and Canada.

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Examination of gender equality towards education, employment and family management among employees of the Malaysian higher education institutions

2023-04-24 , Ummi Naiemah Saraih , Noorazeela Zainol Abidin , Mohd Khairulnizam Zahari , Azman N.A.N. , Dalain F.N. , Andika F.

The purpose of this research is to examine the perception on gender equality towards several key terms which are related in measuring gender equality in the context of Malaysian Higher Education Institutions (HEI). Specifically, this study aims to reveal the perception of employees in the HEIs located in the Northern Region of Malaysia pertaining to several concerns which are related to education, employment and family management. This research is carried out by using a quantitative method through the distribution of the self-directed Google Form questionnaires. Convenient sampling is utilized in this research. The sample size consisted of 370 employees of those institutions who have participated voluntarily to involve in the study. In the terms of education, results showed a different perception towards completing education in the secondary and tertiary education. Based on the descriptive analyses, results presented a high level of perception on women and employment (μ=3.46); and a medium level of perception on women and family management (μ=2.93) among employees in this study. In the current scenario, the HEIs should actively increase the level of perception towards education, employment and family management among their employees in order to ensure the overall goals of gender equality for the nation could be achieved.

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Green technology, exports, and COâ‚‚ emissions in Malaysia

2023 , Temitayo B. Majekodunmi , Mohd Shahidan Shaari , Abdul Rahim Ridzuan , Noorazeela Zainol Abidin

The pressing global effort to tackle COâ‚‚ emissions has brought about a strong emphasis on adopting green technology by economies striving for low-carbon development. Within this context, this research investigates the environmental significance of green technology and exports in Malaysia. By examining 30-year data from 1989 to 2019 and utilising the autoregressive distributed lag model (ARDL), this study explores these variables' long-run and short-run effects on Malaysia's environment. The outcomes reveal noteworthy insights: population growth and green technology negatively impact environmental degradation, whereas exports and economic expansion contribute to environmental depletion over the long term. However, the influences of a higher population and exports are inconsequential in the short term. Additionally, the study captures the influences of transient economic challenges, such as the COVID-19 outbreak. Consequently, the study emphasises crucial policy implications for the Malaysian government. Firstly, it strongly recommends increasing investment in sustainable technology, especially within the manufacturing sector, to mitigate the adverse environmental impact of exports. Furthermore, it suggests incentivizing companies to embrace green technology through subsidies for acquiring renewable energy and imposing higher taxes on non-renewable energy sources. Additionally, policymakers are urged to prioritise human capital development by raising public awareness about the dangers of heightened COâ‚‚ emissions. Malaysia can leverage its expertise to foster economic expansion without compromising the environment by engaging the working population in environmentally sustainable economic activities. These policy recommendations aim to expedite the shift towards a decarbonised economy, promote sustainable development, and safeguard Malaysia's natural resources.

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The impact of the intangible heritage model on tourism performance in Malaysia

2023-06-12 , Najuwa Mohd Nasir , Rashid I.M.A. , Noorazeela Zainol Abidin , Borhanordin A.H. , Roni M. , Hussin H. , Shafiai S. , Mohammad Harith Amlus , Elsiefy E.

The growing concern of tourism performance has been widely discussed at national level. This issue is important because it reflect on the economic growth in Malaysia. Through the Tourism NKEA (National Key Economic Area), collaborative efforts between the Ministry of Tourism and Culture, other Government agencies and the private sectors are crucial to secure Malaysia's position as leading tourist destination and achieves the country's target at 36 million tourists' arrival and RM 168 billion in receipt by 2020. The target set under NKEA through the 21 National Ecotourism Action Plan. Given the importance role of tourism in the economy and the potential benefit from it, there is a need to make sure that the tourism industry remains both environmentally and economically sustainable. In ensuring sustainability of the industry, protection of cultural heritage is of foremost importance. Furthermore, sustainable heritage tourism development has become an important criterion in attracting tourist. In this sense, heritage tourism works as capable of fulling such requirements. Thus, through this research project, the establishment of new heritage model on tourist's expectation and perception such as intangible heritage, tangible heritage, tourists' spending behaviour, heritage as brand identity and tourism application will adapt to investigate tourism sector performance in Malaysia.

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The importance of Internet of Things (IoT) on business success during pandemic Covid-19

2023-06-12 , Najuwa Mohd Nasir , Hussin H. , Noorazeela Zainol Abidin , Rashid I.M.A. , Roni M. , Borhanordin A.H. , Shafiai S. , Mohammad Harith Amlus , Elsiefy E.

Social distancing has been regarded as a key method by the authorities worldwide to manage the pandemic of COVID-19. Digital technologies play a crucial role to support the social, professional and economic activities when people are forced to stay locked-down in their homes. Internet of things (IoT) technologies have a track of providing high quality remote health care and automation services which could guarantee social distancing while maintaining health and well-being of populations. Online payment transactions have make the negotiation effective in e-commerce as consumers did not have to go out of their house and go to the bank just to make a payment. Nowadays, there are many banks in Malaysia offers the online payment or online banking for their customers in order to make their customers satisfied with their services and to gain profit. Next problem that can lead to customers' dissatisfaction when online purchasing is fraud and security. Consumers always feel worried about their financial and private information being reveal to the public. Self-regulation by the industry, since the laws in Malaysia and other parts of the world are quite vague, educate themselves as to how their personal data can be protected to understand consumer rights and deficiencies of the law. The growth of Internet has welcomed more windows of opportunities for computer crimes. Statistics show that there are currently 26.3 million Internet users in Malaysia and is expected to increase to 29.4 million users by 2023.

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The environmental influence of national savings in D-8 countries: empirical evidence using an ARDL model

2023 , Temitayo Blessing Majekodunmi , Mohd Shahidan Shaari , Noorazeela Zainol Abidin , Miguel Angel Esquivias

Extensive theoretical and empirical evidence supports the crucial role of savings in driving a nation’s economic growth and development. However, previous studies have not considered their potential environmental implications. This study aims to explore the influence of savings and remittances on the Developing-8 countries (D-8) from 1989 to 2019, using the panel autoregressive distributed (ARDL) model. The findings reveal that national savings and remittances, in the long run, help mitigate environmental degradation in the D-8 countries but energy use and population growth stimulate carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. In contrast, economic growth does not significantly affect these countries’ environmental quality in the long run. However, none of the explanatory variables have any significant relationship with CO2 emissions in the short run. Therefore, policymakers in the D-8 countries are strongly encouraged to prioritize the enhancement of national savings across the three economic agents to maximize the positive effects of savings on environmental quality. Government savings can be increased by reducing deficits and borrowings, while corporate savings can be encouraged by implementing investment tax credits and promoting research and development. Additionally, governments can embark on public enlightenment campaigns on financial education and provide incentives to encourage household savings.

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The importance of Internet of Things (IoT) on business success during pandemic Covid-19

2023 , Najuwa Mohd Nasir , Harniyati Hussin , Intan Maizura Abd Rashid , Noorazeela Zainol Abidin , Mastura Roni , Amirah Hazimah Borhanordin , Syahiru Shafiai , Elsayed Elsiefy , Mohammad Harith Amlus

Social distancing has been regarded as a key method by the authorities worldwide to manage the pandemic of COVID-19. Digital technologies play a crucial role to support the social, professional and economic activities when people are forced to stay locked-down in their homes. Internet of things (IoT) technologies have a track of providing high quality remote health care and automation services which could guarantee social distancing while maintaining health and well-being of populations. Online payment transactions have make the negotiation effective in e-commerce as consumers did not have to go out of their house and go to the bank just to make a payment. Nowadays, there are many banks in Malaysia offers the online payment or online banking for their customers in order to make their customers satisfied with their services and to gain profit. Next problem that can lead to customers' dissatisfaction when online purchasing is fraud and security. Consumers always feel worried about their financial and private information being reveal to the public. Self-regulation by the industry, since the laws in Malaysia and other parts of the world are quite vague, educate themselves as to how their personal data can be protected to understand consumer rights and deficiencies of the law. The growth of Internet has welcomed more windows of opportunities for computer crimes. Statistics show that there are currently 26.3 million Internet users in Malaysia and is expected to increase to 29.4 million users by 2023.

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